Title	Master Mind Master Class with Homa Hoodfar
Creator	Hoodfar, Homa
Contributor	Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
Date Issued	2017-03-08
Description	In March 2016, Canadian-Iranian academic Homa Hoodfar, best known for her research on the role of women in Muslim societies, was arrested in Tehran by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards. She was accused publicly of “dabbling in feminism and security matters” related to the recent election, and in June, after her bail was increased, she was jailed in Tehran’s Evin Prison. There she faced many long interrogation sessions, constant threats of lengthy jail sentences and psychological torture while suffering from deteriorating health. In late September, after months of campaigning and diplomatic maneuvering, she was finally released and returned to Canada. Please join us for a very special evening where Professor Hoodfar will share her story and discuss the reasons why academic freedom remains so important in modern society and why freedom of expression needs to be protected as a global right.
Type	Moving Image
Language	eng
Date Available	2017-10-25
Provider	Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI	10.14288/1.0357349
URI	http://hdl.handle.net/2429/63431
Affiliation	Alumni; Non UBC
Peer Review Status	Unreviewed
Scholarly Level	Researcher; Other
Rights URI	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Aggregated Source Repository	DSpace

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